There are no initial or ongoing fees to sell on Common Goods. Each order is subject to a 20% commission off of the MSRP. 

Orders are paid out automatically when the order is fulfilled. Payments are handled either by Shopify Collective or Stripe integration dependin on your setup.

If your store connection is not through Shopify Collective, you will need to open a free Stripe account to get paid.

We will never override or edit your product pricing. If you put your products on sale on your own store, the sale prices will synchronize to Common Goods as well by default. You can edit this in your product price list settings.

Common Goods does not offer any paid promotions but we do publish a weekly newsletter and seasonal merchandising to feature new collections and seasonal products. We reserve the right to run a site-wide promotions (e.g. welcome discount).

Common Goods displays and enforces your refund policies as submitted in your Brand Inforamtion form. For Shopify Collective vendors, the process for receiving a return request, approval, and return label creation flows through your admin just like a normal return request from your own website customers. There are no additional actions required.

1. When a customer requests a refund, the refund request will land directly inside your e-commerce dashboard for you to approve. You will receive an email notification.
2. Once approved, it is your responsibility to upload a prepaid shipping label within 2 days. 
3. Upon receipt of the returned product, we ask that you process returns within 7 business days of receipt.
4. You must mark the item as returned and issue the correlating refund to Common Goods in order for the funds to be released to us to refund the customer. We ask that you do this in a timely manner to prevent unecessary customer service tickets.

Yes. The "Made in Canada" filter is our #1 top used feature, so we already know that Canadians want to shop this way. However, sometimes this means the price of goods becomes out of reach or the selection in certain categories ends up near zero.

Our hierarchy of brands we're keen to work with is: Canadian brand made in Canada > Canadian brand partially made in Canada > Canadian brand made elsewhere > Canadian distributor of non-US products not available from a Canadian brand (yet)

Below is the current distribution of the 400+ vendors on our platform. We are always working to prioritize Canadian-made.

Canadian brands made in Canada: 40%

Canadian brands made partially in Canada: 16%

Canadian brands made elsewhere: 43%

Canadian distributors of international brands: 1%

Listing a couple of your bestsellers is a great way to try Common Goods without distributing your entire catalogue. There is no minimum number of products to join our platform.

Not yet. Unified inventory storage and fulfillment is on our roadmap for 2027. Stay tuned.

If your products aren't the right fit for our platform at this time, you will have received an email notification listing the reason(s) why. These may include but are not limited to:

• Too many negative customer reviews. (We consult a variety of review sources)
• Incomplete product listings
• Poor product image quality
• Parent company is not Canadian
• Products do not align with our collections or merchandising
• Egregious use of AI

Please allow up to 14 business days to receive a decision. We are currently experiencing an overwhelming influx of new applicants.

No! Starting September, 2026, vendors without an existing online presence can apply to sell with Common Goods. If approved, you will gain access to a Common Goods online dashboard wher you will manage your product listings, orders, shipments, and payouts.